The government directed the collectors of Satna, Morena and Anuppur districts to perform the last rites of the martyred jawans with full state honours.

The directives in this regard were issued by MP Chief Secretary Antony DeSa to the three collectors via video-conferencing, official sources said.

DeSa also directed them to provide compensation of Rs 10 lakh each to the kin of the slain jawans.

The three jawans from MP —— Manmohan Singh Parihar of Semri village in Satna district, Nahar Singh of Sethra Badai village in Morena district and Shobhnath Rathore of Harri village in Anuppur district —— were among the 16 people killed on Tuesday in a Naxal ambush on a security patrol in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh, sources added.